Brazil: One Man's Cup of Coffee

Home last week after a ten-nation tour of Latin America, Presidential
Envoy Adlai Stevenson was the bearer of uneasy tidings. The leaders of
Latin America's democratic governments were still in a state of "mental
shock" over the Cuban disaster; U.S. prestige was in sharp decline.
Though everyone recognized the danger of Castro's Communist Cuba, the
bearded dictator loomed so large across the Caribbean that no one was
willing to join in strong, concerted action against him. The one
immediate hope, reported Stevenson, was a mild plan, advanced by
Colombia, for...